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# fanciful

«fanciful» in Mova's school dictionary: **full of imagination, with ideas that are not based on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (fanciful, more fanciful, most fanciful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fanciful means full of imagination, with ideas that are not based on fact or proof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#m1)

2) Fanciful can mean odd, unreal or made up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a fanciful idea or conclusion is clever and imaginative but not proved; a cat may call a person fanciful for dreaming

### examples

- You have a fanciful idea about dragons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#x1)
- The cat said I was fanciful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#x2)
- The story has a fanciful picture of a flying castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#x3)
- That is a fanciful guess; we need proof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fanciful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.